Legendary Cosmo editor Helen Gurley Brown helmed the ladymag for 32 years, and didn't go easy: apparently it took a series of flippantly tone-deaf gaffes to get the sorta-feminist doyenne fired. Heroine or relic?

Helen Gurley Brown, former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief and a walking billboard for extended lifespan through calorie restriction, is the latest subject to tackle Vanity Fair magazine's Proust Questionnaire. In the most recent issue of the magazine, the scary-skinny, bobble-headed Cosmo Girl (she reportedly continues…